Nicholas, This has been covered before.
Google: DB_CONFIG Expect poor performance It's just Berkeley DB complaining that there's no DB_CONFIG file... Harmless. - chris Chris Jacobs, Systems Administrator Apollo Group | Apollo Marketing | Aptimus 2001 6th Ave Ste 3200 | Seattle, WA 98121 phone: 206.441.9100 x1245 | mobile: 206.601.3256 | fax: 206.441.9661 email: [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: Jonathan Clarke <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Mon Jul 12 07:30:36 2010 Subject: Re: Cannot authenticate with user/password Thanks guys! Now when I start slapd, I do not understand the output: ------------------------------------------------------- @(#) $OpenLDAP: slapd 2.4.22 (Jun 9 2010 08:15:30) $ st...@v480:/bigdisk/SOURCES/S10/openldap-2.4.22/servers/slapd Backend ACL: access to * by self write by users read by anonymous auth Backend ACL: access to * by * none config_back_db_open: line 0: warning: cannot assess the validity of the ACL scope within backend naming context bdb_db_open: warning - no DB_CONFIG file found in directory /shibidp/LDAP/var/data: (2). Expect poor performance for suffix "dc=ldap,dc=mimas,dc=ac,dc=uk". bdb_monitor_db_open: monitoring disabled; configure monitor database to enable slapd starting Jonathan Clarke wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:13:27 +0100, Nicholas Syrotiuk > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Dear OpenLDAP users, >> >> We have downloaded OpenLDAP 2.4.22 from Sunfreeware.com and installed >> it. We have successfully imported the LDAP data from another server. >> We are using the *simple* authentication method. >> >> I can authenticate as rootdn but not as a user. Is there something >> wrong with my access control list: >> ----------------------- >> access to * >> by self write >> by users read >> by anonymous none >> ------------------------- >> >> I have tried running slapd with debugging switched on but could not >> diagnose the problem. >> >> Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this? > > Troubleshooting ACLs is greatly made easier by using "loglevel acl" in > slapd.conf or "-d acl" on the command line. > > In this case, you need to allow anonymous users auth privileges so that > they can authenticate. See > http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/access-control.html#The%20access%20to%20grant > for details. > > Regards, > Jonathan -- N Syrotiuk | Mimas | University of Manchester | Manchester M13 9PL This message is private and confidential. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system.
